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  1. NatJ

    Formerly “head rooster” was overthrown by a younger one - now hides all day and won’t eat!

    I'm not the one who posted it, but I think I understand what they meant. I think that "confinement" here means that Jack cannot go as far as he wants to go away from Wade. If they were wild, or free ranging over a very large area, Jack could go much further away from Wade: out of sight of Wade...
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    Black To White Experiment

    If the article is online, can you provide a link? That does not match what I have read elsewhere about chicken egg colors.
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    Black To White Experiment

    Do you mean, 2 beige eggs and some number of blue eggs in the basket? Or do you mean, 2 eggs have both beige & blue in their coloring, and the others are just blue or just not-blue? I see parts of 16 eggs in the basket. It looks like they are roughly sorted to have the blue/green ones to the...
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    Genetic related wry tail? Or just previous environment?

    I was just thinking: this looks like the answer to the original question in the title of this thread. Since the tails did straighten out in a new environment, they were probably crooked because of the previous environment. Obviously the genetics of the chickens did not change when they were...
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    Black To White Experiment

    If there is no blue, I consider it a shade of brown. That is what I meant about the eggs I have seen. Eggs that other people call cream, beige, pink, or purple are all shades of "brown" to me. They all come from hens with some of the genes that are involved in making brown eggs, and no blue egg...
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    Black To White Experiment

    I can usually tell blue/green eggs apart from any shade of white/cream/brown, but I've had a few that looked "green" in some light and "brown" in others. I think they have generally turned out to be brown when I tried enough different kinds of light, but I don't remember for sure. I didn't think...
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    Black To White Experiment

    I saw those posts, but I don't have any particular thoughts to share.
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    Weekend vacation and egg laying with a rooster.

    Collect eggs Friday before you leave, collect eggs again Sunday morning when you get home. Put eggs in the fridge at that point. You will not see any embryo development. If the outside temperature is below about 70 degrees, and there are no broody hens sitting on the eggs, you will never see...
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    5 Chicken Coop + Run, Recommended Dimensions?

    Another option is to make an open air coop: Make a covered run that fills the entire space. (Wire mesh on the sides, solid roof on the top.) Put roosts at one end for sleeping, with partial walls of solid material to provide shelter from wind. Put nests somewhere that rain will not blow in them...
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    What do you do with your frozen eggs???

    One option is to put a bit of their usual dry feed in a bowl, then crack the egg on top of that. Any egg they do not drink will just soak into the feed and then they eat that too.
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    Safely Heating CX Chicks

    Once they have been in the tractor for about three days, I am sure they will be fine with the full square footage. https://www.hoffmanhatchery.com/brooding.html Here is one hatchery's instructions for brooding chicks. It recommends a 250 watt heat lamp and a circle of cardboard 4 to 5 feet...
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    What do you do with extra eggs?

    That sounds like an attractive idea, except that then I'd have to clean the muffin tins. That is my main reason for using a big pan :D I had not realized that mixes existed. I got my recipe off the internet, then modified it until it worked the way I wanted. You're welcome! I hope everyone...
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    Safely Heating CX Chicks

    Where do you intend to raise them after brooding? I suggest you brood them in the same space. Maybe cover some sides with tarp to stop drafts while they are very young. If it is a chicken tractor you plan to move, I would put it in one place for the brooding period, ideally somewhere you want...
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    Things you wish you could say

    My family mashes the potatoes with the water we used to boil them (a little more potato flavor and vitamins and minerals), then adds powdered milk and salt and butter. The powdered milk means you can get a lot more "milk" in the potatoes without turning them into soup. I've had occasional...
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    Air sac determines sex.

    How many days of incubation could make a difference in whether it feels pain or fear. Given that I like to eat chicken meat, I do not have a big problem with the idea of chickens being killed. I do want it done in a way that minimizes pain & stress for the chickens involved. Killing the male...
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    Comb questions

    I doubt it, but I don't see that it would make much difference either way. The gold/silver gene cannot be passed from a mother to her daughter. I've seen black chickens have an occasional bit of white in their wing feathers. I would guess this is the same kind of thing, especially given the...
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    Meat Chickens - chilling stage and duration?

    Not necessary. After you get the warm guts out, you can chill it much more effectively. Shrink wrapping or vacuum sealing are optional. They are not required but do not cause a problem while the meat is resting to let rigor mortis go away.
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    Things you wish you could say

    To start at an obvious way of narrowing it down: Pet or touch various parts of her to figure out if any of them hurt (she flinches or bites or something.) From what you said of how she's acting, it sounds like she may not let you do this all at once, but you could do different parts at...
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    Does "Refeeding Syndrome" Apply to Chickens?

    Many months too late to help in this case, but if you have that situation in future: you can put food and water in a dish together, give it a minute or two for the water to soak in so you can tell if it needs more water, then let the chicken eat it. Since the feed swells up when it gets wet...
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    What Breed are these Bantys?

    I agree, Olandsk Dwarf could be a possibility. They are pretty rare, so it's not what I would expect to find in a situation like this, but anything is possible :idunno Yes, either of those explanations could work. Regardless of what kind they are, you seem to have gotten some really nice...
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